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SKARR
ONE WEEK LATER
“I promise you, this is how they’re supposed to look.” Vivi shoots me an amused look as she straps one of the skis to my boot. Just her bending over in front of me like that is enough to make my cocks want to extrude and my khui is singing loudly. Resonance presses upon both of us hard, but Vivi has not indicated she wishes to mate yet, so I wait.
And wait.
Truly, the waiting is not so bad. Vivi and I spend most of our time together, and at night we are in the furs, kissing and touching. But the longer this goes on, the more difficult it becomes to control my cocks. I extrude in my sleep and wake up grinding against her. I think about mating constantly. I ache with hunger for her. My cocks constantly throb with need.
I hope she decides we are mates soon, but until she does, I must control myself. I give her rounded backside a hungry stare and then bite back a sigh, forcing myself to look at the ski on my foot instead. “It looks ridiculous.”
Vivi laughs, unoffended. “It does not.”
“It does look a bit like a canoe,” Nadine offers, watching from nearby. She has been helping Vivi with skis for days now, both of them trying different versions before settling upon this one. I see them together often, their heads bent, smiling and laughing, and I am glad that my Vivi is friendly with her…and I am jealous at the same time.
I want all her laughter. All her smiles.
And because I am a jealous fool, when they suggested trying out the skis, I insisted I join them. Now I have a slippery wood-thing strapped to my boot. Nadine hands me a pair of poles and I lean on them while Vivi slips the other ski on my foot. By the time she is done, I am sliding back and forth on the snow, trying to remain in the same spot and failing. “I am drifting!”
“Turn your ski,” Vivi instructs without looking up.
Nadine finishes strapping hers to her feet and braces herself on her poles, testing them out. “Not bad, not bad.”
“Let me put mine on and we’ll give them all a test run.” She grins with excitement up at the others. The skis are twice as long as my feet and not very wide. I turn slowly in the snow, lifting each foot as I prepare myself. We are bundled up heavily and have taken to the hills just above the cove to test the skis out in the snows. Vivi worries they will not stay together well enough, so we’ve picked a “small” hill to ski down.
Now that I have these bone sleds attached to my feet and I feel how uncertain my stance is on the ground? The hill looks very large indeed. “The bottoms of my skis feel very slippery,” I confess as Vivi finishes strapping her skis to her feet and stands upright. “Are they supposed to?”
“They’re slippery because they’re greased,” Vivi tells me. “So we can go faster, remember?”
“If you don’t want to try the skis out with us, I can go get Thrand and you can watch Deenie instead.” Nadine’s tone is sweet.
“Bah,” is all I say. I should be the one with the skis on my feet, as it is my mate’s idea. “I will be excellent at skiing. Wait and see.”
“I’m sure you will, babe,” Vivi tells me, and poles her way forward a bit, testing the skis on her feet. “This version seems to be holding. That’s a good sign.”
“They feel sturdy,” Nadine agrees. “Much better than the reed ones. I think the length and width helps, too.”
Vivi makes a hmming noise. “They’re not as long as I want, but maybe that’s a good thing? We’ll just have to take it slow and make sure we don’t topple over as we go downhill. You remember what I told you, Skarr?”
I remember some of it, but I had also been admiring how strong and fine she looked when she was instructing me. “Balance my weight on my knees. Do not lean forward too much. Crouch. Steer with my knees. Turn to the side when I get to the bottom so I can stop.”
“You’ve got it.” Her eyes sparkle and she skis over to me, then puts one of her poles in the wrist loop and pulls a hood over my head, tucking a scarf around my neck. “How’s your tail sock?”
“Warm. I like it.” She made me an attachment that ties to the back of my leggings that covers the majority of my tail and helps me stay much warmer. I do not care for the festive pom-pom she put on the end, but it makes her smile and I like her smile, so it stays.
Vivi beams at me and taps a finger on my nose. “I’ll go first.” She turns to the other woman. “Nadine, you want to go last so you can help Skarr if he gets stuck?”
Nadine nods. “Will do.”
My female flashes a smile at us and then shuffles to the edge of the hill we are upon. She pushes off and crouches low as she glides down the side of the hill, picking up speed as she goes, her poles lifted horizontally under her arms. Near the bottom, she wobbles, almost losing her balance, and my heart leaps into my throat. I start forward to go after her, but she rights herself and I can breathe again.
When she gets to the bottom, she turns her skis and straightens to her full height, waving and giving us a thumbs-up gesture that means she is happy.
“Go for it, Skarr,” Nadine says. “You’re up.”
I bite back a heavy sigh. I will be excellent at this, I am certain. I just…do not want to do it. I like my feet on firm ground. But Vivi is gazing up with an expectant look and I do not want to disappoint her. Gritting my teeth, I move to the edge of the slope and hunch over.
The skis move forward a handspan, nothing more. And they do so agonizingly slow.
